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‘I’d come back to the UK – but I’m not playing a cop’: Oscar-tipped Wunmi Mosaku on sensational vampire smash Sinners

She grew up on a Manchester council estate. Now she’s gone stratospheric for her pivotal role in Sinners. The star talks about leaving Britain for LA – and the £30 bus trip that changed her life

‘I do love a Greggs,” says Wunmi Mosaku, as she settles into a sofa in a hotel in London’s Holborn. She’s extolling the virtues of the high-street baker after I jokingly suggested that’s what she could have for lunch, now she’s back in the UK from her base in Los Angeles. Despite being Stateside for the best part of a decade, she has lost none of her Manchester twang or sense of humour.

How Wunmi Mosaku went from Manchester estate to Oscar nomination

As a young child, Wunmi Mosaku always had her sights set on a career in acting, inspired by her love of the 1980s musical Annie.

"I watched Annie every single day after school," said 39-year-old Mosaku during a recent interview on The Graham Norton Show.

"I said to my mum and sister 'I don't want to do maths and economics, I think I want to act'.

"They were like 'how do you do that' and I was like 'I don't know'."

To answer her mother's question, Mosaku decided to Google the cast of her favourite film in search of some much-needed insight into how to break it into the acting industry.

‘Sinners’ Stars Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo Save the Brits From Their First Oscars Shut-Out in 40 Years

Thanks to the pair, the U.K. is somewhat covered at the 98th Academy Awards — though it's been a decidedly weaker year for British talent.

Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo will be flying the flag for the usually well-performing Brits at this year’s Academy Awards.

The Sinners stars are the only U.K. natives to land acting Oscar nominations on Thursday, unveiled by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Notably, Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine) and Cynthia Erivo (Wicked: For Good) did not score nods.

Thanks to Mosaku and Lindo, the U.K. is somewhat covered at the 98th Academy Awards — though it’s been a decidedly weaker year for British talent. Had the duo not earned nods, it would have been the first time in 40 years that Britons failed to earn an acting Oscar nomination. This last occurred in 1986.

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